Reply #44: Bazant/Zhou is not an exact modeling of the WTC towers' collapse. It's a limiting case.

[Bolo Boffin]

It's meant to start the discussion.

It does show that there was no stopping the upper section once it got momentum. Bazant/Zhou considers an best-case-scenario for the survival of the towers' structure. However, what happened on 9/11 is not the best case scenario.

If the towers' structure could not survive a best case scenario, there is no way they could have survived what actually did happen.

You betray your lack of understanding (as does Szamboti) by exterpolating from Bazant/Zhou things that you think you should see in the videotape. It's a rookie mistake.